By Tom Breihan
on August 13, 2009 at 11:45 a.m. EDT

A couple days ago, we reported that Gerard Cosloy, the co-owner of Matador Records, had lost his house to a fire. It's an unequivocally shitty piece of news, but apparently not everyone thinks so.

As Cosloyreports on the Matablog, yesterday, he got an email from someone claiming to be Tony Brummel, founder of the punk label Victory Records. Cosloy has previously used the Matablog to make fun of Brummel and his business practices, which are widely believed to be pretty scummy. Cosloy even went so far as to make post a graphic of the bulldog from the Victory logo getting humped from behind, with the words "FUCK VICTORY".

All in good fun, right? But Brummel, or someone posing as Brummel, responded to Cosloy's house fire by emailing Cosloy that same humping bulldog image along with the word "KARMA". Adorable.

By Ryan Dombal
on August 11, 2009 at 3:20 p.m. EDT

And you thought you were having a bad day because a pen exploded in your pocket. Matador Records co-owner and overall indie godhead Gerard Cosloy's 98-year-old Austin, Texas home burned to the ground early this morning, according to the Austin American-Statesman. Awful. Thankfully, nobody was injured in the blaze; the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Cosloy posted a picture of the charred remains (left) on his sports blog Can't Stop the Bleeding with the caption "Normal service will resume...I dunno. Sooner or later. This was a hell of a way to get out of hoovering the living room."